“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.” – Ara Parasheghian A warm summer’s morning. The early sun rises majestically from the lake we call Michigan. Scanning the horizon, the swimmers chug furiously doing the crawl stroke in the final leg in the triathlon. To many, this proves to be the most challenging part of that journey. The first leg, the...

AKWA Magazine March 2010 From the classical Greek elements of Fire, Earth, Water, Air and Ether, we draw on two of these, Earth and Water. Plato characterizes these elements as pre- Socrates times originating from the Sicilian philosopher Empedocies (450BC), and persisted through the Middle Ages. Elements refer to a substance, chemical compound or a mixture of chemical compounds. They...